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by Anna Raccoon on July 8, 2016

How about some good news for a change?

Ms Raccoon won’t be resigning any time soon.

My last scan was a success. Correction, my last scan was a flippin’ disaster – but the result was a success! I have no ‘new’ tumours, and the ‘unlucky 13’ I do have are still working away, but very slowly, barely measurable.

Unfortunately, (yippee!) I have now become sort of allergic to the PET scan – so won’t be having any more of them. Breaking my heart it is…no more fat man in a portacabin in the hospital car park.

So ‘Miracle Woman’ is celebrating; first, paying up for another six months hosting for the blog, and then taking herself off to London for the week-end to meet up with some old friends. Hotel booked (‘we speaks Romanian and English’ – hmmm, I sense a blog post here!) and a train ticket in my pocket, along with a spare pair of knickers and toothbrush – what more does a girl need? (Portable pharmacy, Mr G has just reminded me).

Mr G might let you out of Moderation, in between the MotoGP, Formula 1, the football, and the Chinese takeaway he’s promised himself – but I wouldn’t rely on it…

Very welcome news! (I’m wondering if the old friends in London might not include a former Daily Mail journalist, and if upon her return home the landlady won’t be sporting a ‘lucky 7s’ badge sewn onto her pelt!)

Dear God I hope not! The Landlady is that which my Ol’Dad, would describe as “h’a classy Lady” (he is from Laambefff and can be excused such Micheal Caine moments) and that despite her being a scouser -who says one can’t rise above the handicap of birth?

On the topic of Breakit, sorry ‘Brexit’, the most recent German ‘politbarometer’ poll (the one German politicians pay attention to), since Brexit, has thrown up some interesting results: 51 % felt Germany’s EU membership was a good thing, 37% said membership had pros and cons and only 10% felt being in the EU was a BAD thing.

70% felt GB should not have voted for Brexit, 12% said it was a good thing and 16% couldn’t give an F-word.49% say that the EU should make no great concessions when negotiating the Brexit, and 37 % a hard line ‘no concessions whatsoever with the UK’. Thus figures alone should worry anyone who thinks we might get a place at the Common Market table without agreeing to any of the ‘pillars’ of the EU (free movement etc).

Strangely enough 49% of Germans asked also said they wanted an ever closer union and 37 % want individual states to have more control.

If you add up the value of BMW, Mercedes and VW’s UK sales alone, it will soon become blindingly obvious that our German friends have far greater vested interests in open-trade with the UK than the UK has with them – but it’s their choice, and I know what they’ll choose. Emotions are currently blinding many people to the realities of economics – this moment will subside and common-sense will prevail at each bilateral level. It may be different at EU-Central, but they’re always irrelevant when thousands of jobs in Germany are at stake – and wholly irrelevant long-term: the EU’s a busted flush, a gravy-train to nowhere, a soviet with a great future behind it. The future’s bright, the future’s Brexit.

Perhaps someone could tell the BBC that we had a vote, decison’s been made. Bigging up a demo by a few thousand whining wet adolescents as somehow more relevant than the considered opinion of 17 million with decades of experience must be the nadir. 17 million who also thought the matter important enough to turn up to vote.

Blindingly obvious is that too many ‘considered opinions’ (to quote Binao) seem to think that 1 country can dictate to 27 trading partners but those 27 won’t tell us to F**K off if our demands are perceived as unreasonable (and as far as I can see most of the Brexiter’s demands would be perceived as Unreasonable). Now of course there will be an agreement and , as Schauble himself said, it will be dictated more by the markets and business than politicians but it is fallacy to think we, the UK, will get the access it wants at the price it wants. The biggest hindrance isn’t however the EU or the Remainers. The biggest hindrance is the belief that the EU states are desperate to have a trade deal. Even, god help me, Tony Blair recently tried to point that out. yUK.gove needs to be having chats with all the EU states on their own, now, not after the part conference.

Great news, if they’ve slowed down the growth rate of the tumours that’s fantastic. Just sending you a virtual g&t! Always love reading this blog which you keep running in spite of your significant Health problems. Your in sight into law and life is great!

Well done Anna ….gosh you have always played things close all your life …..and have won …..and most importantly today continue to win …..and long may things stay that way ……winning that is rather than playing things close

Thanks for the link. For detailed account of “Sybil” see chapter 3 in “Making Minds and Madness”-Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen; and on related theme, “Making Monsters” – Richard Ofshie and Ethan Watters and ” The Myth of Repressed Memory”- Elizabeth Loftus and Katherine Ketcham.